Authors note

The newest chapter is finally here! The holidays, school and work had me going crazy, I'm in the middle of a job switch currently so it's still crazy, but I'm back now! I hope you all enjoy and comment what you think of it, that would make my day. Once again I do not own Voltron or any of its characters, but I have made some of mine own characters for this story.

So where I left off last chapter was Allura in her office after she had been attacked by Hamilton. Many of you are probably wondering what has happened to him. The Royal Thirteen could not deny that he had attacked her but they were against sending him home. Except Coran of course! Anyways they're giving him a second chance, but there are limits. He can only see her on a scheduled date with two bodyguards only five times a week. So this means no more balls or meals or people forums with the Queen. Thank goodness right?

In the Life

Chapter 10

"Nedaa" The Drule king spoke. His voice was followed by the sound of laser guns firing and two victims falling to the ground, their screams drowning out everything else.

"No!" Allura screamed awake, tears streaming down her face. Her heart beating out of her chest, she sat there paralyzed unable to move. Fear had gripped her heart and it wasn't letting go.

She had only been asleep for a little over twenty minuets, her nightmares weren't even dreams anymore it was just visits to her past. She was surprised however that this time it jumped to where her parents were murdered instead of starting at the ball.

/

Lieutenant James Rahen had been sent to alert the queen it was almost time for dinner and that he was to be her bodyguard to the occasion. Commander Keith Kogane had warned him however that Allura would disapprove at having a bodyguard. He was hoping however that she would open up to the idea of having him as a bodyguard and getting to know her a lot better.

He knocked on her door but there was no answer, afraid she might not have heard him he knocked again. Silence was his greeting.

"Your Majesty, it is I, Lieutenant James Rahen. I am here to escort you safely to dinner. It starts it ten minuets my lady."

There was no answer, only silence. Something was wrong, he could feel it.

"Is it alright if I may come in?"

Silence.

Following his gut he opened the door and did a search of the room with his eyes. His heart skipped many beats as he saw the queen curled up in her bed, paler than a ghost breathing rapidly with tears streaming down her face.

He ran to her side.

"Are you okay?" He asked urgently taking her shoulders in his hands trying to shake her out of shock. "Did Hamilton hurt you? Where are you hurt?"

Her eyes were a horrid daze that refused to come to reality. Finally after a couple of minuets with his help she started to come out of shock.

"I'm not hurt." Allura spoke weakly.

"What's wrong?"

Allura sat up quickly returning to her normal self.

"Nothing. Nothing is wrong. I had a bad dream. That's all."

She founded so final, he could tell she didn't want him to ask questions, but that had to be more than a dream to put her into a state of shock like that.

"Your Majesty, that had to be more than a bad dream. Perhaps I should call the doctor to make sure..."

She cut him off with a hard glare.

"Lieutenant. It was just a bad dream, that's all. Now I imagine you're here to escort me to dinner because I know that the Commander has placed bodyguards over me. Now before we go you must promise me that you will never tell anyone you saw me like this. Is that understood?"

He could see she wasn't asking, it was a command.

"But why? I really think it's best if you stay here and rest and I'll send the doctor..."

"No. The queen cannot be weak. My people need a strong queen and if they see I am not strong, if they hear about this. They will think I am weak. They will pity me and eventually question my rule. And that can lead to chaos. I have to be strong because they need someone who is strong, you will not tell anyone about this. Now leave me be so I can get ready."

"Yes your majesty." James turned and left her room and stood wait outside her door. He couldn't believe that she thought her people demanded her to be strong all the time. He decided that he would have Coran talk to her about it.

Ten minuets later he was astonished by how much she had changed her look. No longer was she a terrified, helpless and pale person. She had somehow regained her color back any trace of tiredness or something else was replaced as she stood in a simple blue and white gown, hair perfectly straight and looking as if she didn't have a care in the world.

/

Something was wrong. Keith felt in his bones, even his broken ones. Allura was late. She was never late. Hamilton wasn't here either, he was supposed to be eating in a separate room. There was always the chance that he could've gotten to her, he didn't know why he sent James when he should've went himself.

He shared a look with Lance, Keith could tell that he had the same thought. He was about to get up when Allura and James walked into the room, James had his hand on the small of her back. Whatever had happened between them, he did not like it, nor was he okay with it.

Allura made eye contact with him as she sat down and then with everyone else and started to speak.

"I'm terribly sorry I am late. I was in my office working on some important paperwork and time seemed to slip me by, if it wasn't for Lieutenant James I fear I would've missed dinner completely."

"You poor thing! You work too hard, it would be more ideal for you to let me help you with your workload." Jerome spoke, Keith knew that if Jerome was closer he would've tried to make a move on her.

He ignored his irritation with Jerome and gave a pointed look at James, he needed to know the real reason Allura was late. He was the only one who knew that she had went to take a nap, so why did she just lie to his face? He worried that something personal passed between them, it could've happened. James was a handsomer man than he was.

James gave him a look that said he couldn't tell him what had happened. Keith knew it then and his heart sank low, James had feelings for Allura, that was obvious. Now he feared was that Allura was starting to have feelings for James.

/

Two days later

/

If there was anything Lance loved it was to see his commander and best friend Jealous. And boy did Keith wreak with it.

They were watching Allura train James how to properly fly the Black Lion. Keith was staring with envy during the whole lesson too. As much as Lance found it assuming he was curious why Keith would be so jealous. Didn't he know Allura only had eyes for him?

He walked up to Keith and punched him jokingly in the shoulder.

"Why so jealous?"

"I'm not jealous." Keith said firmly punching him back but a bit harder, but he never took his eyes of Black.

"You're green with it." He replied rubbing his shoulder.

Before Keith could say anything Black Lion landed and Allura came out laughing followed by James.

"Well James you're a fast learner, you've learned all I can teach you."

"Nonsense, you're a marvelous teacher." Came his reply, he almost reached out to take her hand but she stepped away.

"Well if everyone would excuse me I need to head back to the castle and make sure Larmina is attending to her duties." With that Allura turned and started walking towards the castle.

Lance knew it was his time to leave, he was Allura's bodyguard today. But he thought he should slip in a few words of wisdom first.

"Keith I can see why your jealous but you have no reason to be, Allura clearly isn't in to him."

Keith gave him a glare that said he wasn't talking about this, he was all in command mode. It was creepy how imitating he could be even with multiple broken bones.

Lance jogged up to catch Allura.

"I don't need a bodyguard Lance." Man, no one was in a good mood today, he thought to himself.

"Yes you do."

Allura turned around and looked hard into his eyes, hands on her hips. "No I don't, I am perfectly capable of protecting myself!"

"That's not what happened last time."

"I was caught off guard last time, that's not going to happen..."

"Well speak of the devil." Lance said interrupting Allura, "Allura, get behind me now!"

Hamilton was walking towards them and something was wrong. Hamilton had a bodyguard who was supposed to watch him twenty-four seven. The fact that Hamilton was alone did nothing to ease the feeling that he was dangerous.

"Stay where you are." He yelled at him.

"No why would I do that, I've come for the Queen."

Lance activated his Voltcom right as Hamilton revealed a laser gun.

"Nedaa!" Hamilton yelled, he was about to fire but he was too slow. Lance had already shot him with his pistols.

He turned around to make sure Allura was okay, and what he saw scared him to death. He was sure Hamilton hadn't been able to pull the trigger, and even if he had it would've hit him not her. So why did she look like she had been shot.

She was going into shock he decided, he quickly told Keith on his Voltcom that he needed to get over here now. Allura started shaking, she had turned so pale she made white look tan.

"Allura!" He yelled as he grabbed her as she fell.

/

After she had been given the go by the Doctor Gorma that she was able to leave med-bay, Allura headed straight to the council chambers where she knew the Royal Thirteen would be. Straight pass Keith, James, Lance, everyone who was waiting for her to recover.

She received many surprise stares as she burst open the doors and came storming in, but she didn't care.

"I demand that you all send Hamilton home at once!"

"Your Majesty, why so haste? This is such an important decision, it will determine how our planets will get along in the future. We can not afford to be so hasty and loose an ally." Quin-Lynn spoke ever so calmly.

"It seems to me that we have already lost this ally to Doom." Allura replied coldly.

"What do you mean? Since the beginning of Voltron and the Galaxy Alliance and before that, they have ever been our ally." Quin-Lynn replied almost smugly.

"Alliances can change. If you are so sure that Hamilton is an ally then answer me this. Why did he have a Drule weapon? And why did he speak the Drule word for kill?"

Quin-Lynn and the other advisors didn't have a response.

"Exactly. Now I demand that you send him back to his home planet at once."

"But your Majesty, we feel as if it'd be best for the planet if he were the one to marry you and provide an heir." Quin-Lynn replied not as smug.

Allura felt sick to her stomach and couldn't believe she was about to say this. "Well in that case you better have Maahox bring Lotor back to life and force me to marry him. I will not marry anyone who works with Doom, and I am sick that you would ever want me too. Now send him back, that's an order."

Allura turned around and hurried past the shocked faces of Keith, James, Lance and everyone else. She couldn't think anymore, she started to run. The only chance she could find peace tonight would be by her father's crypt.

/

Keith would've chased after her, he longed to hold her in his arms and comfort her. He didn't though, not in front of the Royal Thirteen. He didn't want to make them suspicious. He was mad though when James did. They've been spending a lot of time together and Keith knew that James like Allura, he was afraid that he was losing her to him.

Keith called a meeting in the Control Room not even five minuets later. Everyone in the Force was there except James and Allura, a fact he tried to ignore. Something bugged him.

"All right team. We might be sending Hamilton home but I don't think we've caught the Doom suitor."

"What do you mean?" Larmina asked, "I thought that was Hamilton."

"So did we all." He replied, then shrugged at Vince and Pidge.

"Well," Vince started, "While Pidge and I have been working hard to find a cure for the haggarium, we accidentally made a truth telling serum."

"So," continued Pidge, "When Hamilton was claiming he was innocent and he was set up, in order to prove it he agreed to let us use it on him."

"And?" Ask Lance who was clearly getting impatient.

"He's telling the truth." Said Pidge.

/

"There I have framed a young suitor for the freak accident you caused, don't you dare try to mess up my plans again."

"Thank you master."

"No one will suspect you as long as you don't act against my wishes."

"I promise, I won't mess up."

"Good." Maahox laughed.

The thing was he still had some of the potion left that Maahox gave him, for all he knew it wouldn't hurt if he slipped some of it into Commander Keith's drink just like he did to Hamilton. The thought made him laugh, all too soon Allura and Arus would be his.